Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the ...

Deep in the folds of the intestine, in microscopic pockets called crypts, a quiet surveillance system is always at work. Stem ...

On any given night, 60,000 people in Canada will go to sleep homeless. Research estimates that more than half of them have ...

Periods of prolonged social isolation have long been associated with difficult emotions and, in some cases, with the ...

Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or ...

Child vaccination has been one of Australia's biggest success stories. Before the COVID pandemic, we hit the national target ...

Public misunderstanding about medical aid in dying in the United States falls into two distinct categories—misinformation and ...

Touching the lives of an average 110 people each day in Aotearoa, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is much more common than any ...

An explosion does not need to strike the head to injure the brain. When a blast occurs, it generates a sudden pressure wave ...

Anti-abortion laws are associated with more deaths among expecting and new mothers, a new study says. Increased numbers of ...

Imagine soaring more than 400 feet in the air before landing on skis, launching off a nearly 50-foot platform strapped to a snowboard, or sledding face first over 80 miles an hour down a sheet of ...

When you scratch an itch, something tells your brain when to stop. That moment of relief, when scratching feels "enough," is not accidental. Scientists have now identified a key molecular and neural ...